Lisa Bixenstine Safford, Ph.D.

Professor of Art History

B.F.A., B.A., M.A., Kent State UniversityM.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University

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While Safford's training was concentrated in 19th and 20th century European and American art, she teaches Ancient, Renaissance, Baroque, Japanese and Indian art as well as courses in her area of greatest expertise. The arts of Japan and India are topics which she has most newly engaged since 1992. To create these courses she participated in seven faculty development programs sponsored by the NEH, Fulbright-Hays, AACU, and ASIANetwork that have taken her to Japan, China, Korea, and India. In 2000 she participated in an Intensive Japanese Garden Seminar offered through Kyoto University.

Dr. Safford has taken Hiram College students to Japan on two occasions, in addition to the regular travel with students she embarks on to France and Italy to learn of the art and culture there. She team teaches classes with a music historian on art and music since the Renaissance, (including a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies course) and the art and music of New Orleans. With a professor in Communications she has team-taught a course on Japanese Ideologies, Artifacts and Institutions while in Japan. In all of her art history courses, she integrates many interdisciplinary topics, including religion, literature, philosophy, science, and other arts. She has published articles and given conference papers on topics in eastern and western art.

Areas of interest: Asian art, European and American Modernism, Renaissance art. Teaches all topics from Ancient to Modern, Japan and India. Has taken students abroad eleven times: to Italy, France and Japan.

“Christo’s New York Gates: The Japanese Connection”, Midwest Art History Society, Dallas, March 23-5, 2006

“Water, Women and Wood: The Persistence of Tradition in Modern India”, Asian Studies Development Program Annual Conference, Kansas City, April, 2004; Society of Indian Religion and Philosophy, October, 2004